Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



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Savernake " is spoken of ; as is " Sr Gilbert Prin's lodge in the 

 Great Pk" (Michaelmas, 1607). " Treasorer's Deane att Alder- 

 bury " is mentioned (Easter, 1604), and also "the parke of Sr 

 Edmund Ludlowe Knight called Bytcombe." 



The following deposition, relative to the illicit carrying of a gun, 

 has an allusion to the eight o'clock bell at Market Lavington :— 



" John Pinchyn of Cheverell mason informeth 



4 1 That on Monday f ortnygh i before Christmas last he went from East Lavington 

 to Cheverell in the company of Willm Purryer and Xrof er Forde, about the tyme 

 of the rynging of the bell at Lavington w ch yoused at viij of the clocke at nyght 

 and when they came betweene M r Goffe's and the oakes above his house they 

 w th young Tackle and one other in his companye Tackle having a staff e of about 

 5 fote longe but what the other had he did not c'teynly p'ceve but sayde to his 

 felowes that went w th hym ' What hath the other felowe? a pece ? ' Soe as yt 

 seemed to his eyes to be a pece. 



"Signed John Pinchin 



"Jo Eenele G Tookee." 



Streams and stews were laid under contribution as well as forests 

 and warrens. " Sr Thomas Thynne's water bytweene Crockerton 

 myll and Dev'ell my 11 " was visited, with what success does not 

 appear. Edward Burden, of Donhead, poached with circumspection, 

 but, notwithstanding all his precautions, his adventures came to 

 light. 



Trinity, 1605 



" Edythe Blacker, servat som tymes to Edward Burden of Donhead Marye in 

 the Gouty of Wilts Weyver saythe that when she served the sayde Edward Burden 

 she hathe sene hir sayde m r [master] to bring home to his howse (as she now dothe 

 p'fectly rem7ber) at fyve severall tymes vj carpes at a tyme and som tymes more 

 / and then he dyd kepe them in a payle of wat' some tymes in his milke howse 

 or butterye and som tymes in his chamber / in both places untyll he had spente 

 them / and saythe that when there were more than he could well spende his wyfe 

 did boyle them w** watf and salte / and som sayge / And farther shee saythe 

 that on of the carpes being greter than the reste her sayde dame made a pye of 

 him whereto ther was haulfe a pecke of flower / and saythe that ther came to the 

 eatyng of this carpe on Thomas Farm 1 of the Donned aforesayde / and saythe 

 hir sayd m r Edward Burden would never eate thes carpes but would have 

 the dore faste locked / and that he dyd som tymes eate them in his chamber 

 and som tymes in his inner romes whereto the dores were ever faste shutt. The 

 mark X of Edythe Blacker. 



"This was confessed in all points before me by the above named Edythe 

 Blacker this iii de daye of Julye 1605 



"James Meevin. 



